From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: felix.jia@alliedtelesis.co.nz
Cc: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, jmorris@namei.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org,
kaber@trash.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 net-next 1/2] net/ipv6: allow sysctl to change link-local address generation mode
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 10:25:47 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170127.102547.1726260389181086804.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170126035918.7332-1-felix.jia@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
From: Felix Jia <felix.jia@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 16:59:17 +1300
> The address generation mode for IPv6 link-local can only be configured
> by netlink messages. This patch adds the ability to change the address
> generation mode via sysctl.
>
> v1 -> v2
> Removed the rtnl lock and switch to use RCU lock to iterate through
> the netdev list.
>
> v2 -> v3
> Removed the addrgenmode variable from the idev structure and use the
> systcl storage for the flag.
>
> Simplifed the logic for sysctl handling by removing the supported
> for all operation.
>
> Added support for more types of tunnel interfaces for link-local
> address generation.
>
> Based the patches from net-next.
>
> v3 -> v4
> Removed unnecessary whitespace changes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Felix Jia <felix.jia@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
Applied.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-27 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-26 3:59 [PATCH v4 net-next 1/2] net/ipv6: allow sysctl to change link-local address generation mode Felix Jia
2017-01-26 3:59 ` [PATCH v4 net-next 2/2] net/ipv6: support more tunnel interfaces for EUI64 link-local generation Felix Jia
2017-01-27 15:26 ` David Miller
2017-01-27 15:25 ` David Miller [this message]
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